IRS and the "Lost" Emails

[n david]

This business about the IRS "losing" Lois Lerner, and now 6 other IRS employees, emails is absurd.

First, the IRS expects us to believe that the government which follows every single email, text and phone call can't retrieve these emails?

Or, do they expect us to believe that by some incredible accident ONLY Lerner and these other 6 employees emails were lost. We're talking about the prime suspect in the IRS scandal. I don't know who these 6 other employees are, or what their participation (or lack thereof) was in the scandal.

I've worked in IT previously and it's possible to retrieve data from drives that fail....unless the drive has been maliciously tampered with. If that's the case, then this is more evidence of serious criminal action on part of the IRS and a special prosecutor should be appointed immediately.

I'm surprised the IRS went this route. Obviously one or more of those emails had damning evidence in it, or they wouldn't have gone through the trouble of destroying them, and by doing so, bring even more suspicion on itself.

For anyone to continue to say the IRS isn't a big deal, this should cause them to reconsider.

[shazeep]

the joke is on us

[KeptByTheWord]

The joke is not funny.

[shazeep]

hmm, um...it kind of is if you are not in the world!

[KeptByTheWord]

Oh ok. So none of this affects you, hmm?

[shazeep]

Originally Posted by KeptByTheWord

Oh ok. So none of this affects you, hmm?

ha--can't say that. casual work is impossible to get now...and yet i manage to stay busy. it led me into volunteering--the overall meltdown, i mean--and other good things have come of it, as well. Learned most everything i hold true in the last five years. Learned that everything i knew before that was pretty much wrong...i don't use the IRS any more, so that part is past me now...so yes, hugely affected.

[KeptByTheWord]

Originally Posted by shazeep

ha--can't say that. casual work is impossible to get now...and yet i manage to stay busy. it led me into volunteering--the overall meltdown, i mean--and other good things have come of it, as well. Learned most everything i hold true in the last five years. Learned that everything i knew before that was pretty much wrong...i don't use the IRS any more, so that part is past me now...so yes, hugely affected.

Well, volunteer work is great... but think about this. Who is going to take care of you once you reach the place where you can't care for yourself anymore? If you are flying under the radar of the IRS, you are not claiming any income, and therefore SS will be little to nothing for you at the time when you need it, unless of course, you have another plan of action?

[shazeep]

Ya--I'm going to trust God! Today started 5 hours ago, and it has enough for me now

[aegsm76]

I trust God, but not the IRS...

[shazeep]

Ya--brought to you by the same group who brought you 'money' as a loan to your gov. Income tax is just another form of theft. You say you don't trust them, but you still use them, right?